It will only be in 2025 that we will truly know the impact that strikes have had on student success rates, the Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville, declared on Wednesday.
He was responding to questions from Liberal MP Madwa-Nika Cadet on the effectiveness of the educational catch-up plan during the study of the budgetary appropriations of the Ministry of Education.
According to the most recent data, nearly 500,000 interventions have been carried out since the end of January in all schools in Quebec. For example, 175,001 students were able to benefit from tutoring services.
However, we must not “declare victory” too quickly, recognized Minister Drainville in the parliamentary committee. The effectiveness of the aid measures will only be truly measured at the start of 2025, according to him.
It will first be necessary to take note of the report card results, then see the number of registrations for summer courses and finally, consider the grades obtained in the January ministerial exams.
“When we arrive at this evaluation, what we want is to be able to see that the strikes have had the least penalizing impact possible and we will then be able to affirm that the catch-up plan has achieved its results,” said Mr. Drainville.
Students affected by the Autonomous Federation of Education (FAE) strike last fall missed about a month of school. The Common Front strike lasted eight days in total.
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